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ProPublica posts NYPD records, bypassing judge’s blockade
- greenyoda 6y agoPrevious discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23957892 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23957892
- Kednicma 6y agoHm, on the metadata page [0], the size is less than a mebibyte, and there's only about 18 bytes per row. Is this a compressed size, or have rows been redacted? I'd check myself, but honestly I'm not sure I could resist the temptation to bypass the Terms of Use and redistribute such a small and politically important dataset. [0] https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/civilian-complaints-against-new-york-city-police-officers https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/civilian-compla...
- z2210558 6y agozipped file, with 33000 rows, and most columns chosen from a list of options, so it looks very easy to compress.